People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1895 — BALANCE OF POWER. [ARTICLE]

BALANCE OF POWER.

THE POPULIST PARTY A POWER IN THE LAND. If th« T«tM Cut for Iu Candidate* Were Thrown to Any One of the Old Parties the Other Weald Go Into Oblivion—-Will Keep On Growing. r n • • «. ————— " Tbptfdinneapolis Tribune to off set the wonderful gain of 600,000 votes which* 3 ’?! now admits the People’s Party made in two years has the following to say: But the probability of continuing such a percentage of gain is as tenuous as most of the Populist theories. There is much less significance in a larges percentage of gain by a new and small party than our Populist friends imagine. If a newspaper •tarts out with one subscriber aud gains another, its circulation has increased 100 per cent, at the same time it has not receved no positive addition. A gain of 600,000 votes in a great country of about 70,000,000 inhabitants is a mere bagatelle; it cuts very little figure. It shows up well in the vote of a party that had only a million votes all told in 1892, but as a positive gain it is not important. Six hundred thousand votes might be taken off or added to the aggregate of republican ballots without produc ing any more effect upon the avestre results than a single tty bite produces upon a cheese. Tlie returns are not in sufficiently for us to note what changes 600,000 taken from the republican vote wcu’d have had this year. But a few figures on the election of 1892 as to the effect 600,000 take n from the democratic or Populist coilumn find added to the republican column would have had. The elediorial vote as cast stood rep. 145, dem. 277, Pop. 22.

Change | Would have given | Electorial of votes [ the republicans | rotes 20 4~6 ” ’’ Arkansas with 8 20 ” ” California ” 1 7 480 ” ” Colorado ” 4 2 685 ” ” Connecticut’’ 6 20 ” ” Delaware ” 3 il2 651 ” ” Florida ” 4 961 ” ” Idaho ” 3 ,13 497 ” ” Illinois ’’ 24 I 3 561 ” ” Indiana ” 15 2 938 ” ” Kansas ” 10 i2O Oil ” ” Kentucky ” 1" jlO 565 ” ” Mar yland ” (■ 14 953 ” ” Mississippi ” 9 1 21 740 ” ” Missouri ” 17 1 2 270 ” ” Nevada ” 8 7 488 ” ” New Jersey” 1( 217 761 ” ” New York ” 3 16 3)5 " ” N.Carolina ” 1 119 " ” N. Dakota ” 2 ) 674 r 7 ” S. Carolina ” 1 ! 19 272 ’’ ” Tennessee ” lv : 29 858 ' Virtriuia ” 1 2 088 •’ W. Virginia” i j 3 273 ” ” Wisconsin ” 1:. 69 731 ” ” Texas ” 1; j 26 480 ” ” Alabama ” 1; '4O 530 ” ” Georgia ” 13 j 29 860 ” ” Louisiana ” fj 54 0 » » oh i o »< ,

| 4>r a change of *27,010 to the republican tickets would have given them the entire vote in the electoral col'ege, and yet the Tribune editor asserts that tiie change could be mace “with- ! out producing any more effect upon ! average results than a single fly bite produces upon a cheese. If he meant average results to the party he is away off. If average results to the people ther. he is no doubt right as between the I republicans tnd democrats. Dakota ! Huralist.